Inbound East, Jessica Meuninck-Ganger

Inbound East, Jessica Meuninck-Ganger
May 4 – June 16, 2018

The Alice Wilds is pleased to present the opening of Jessica Meuninck-Ganger: Inbound East, an exhibition charting the Milwaukee cityscape by departing east from 71st street and proceeding inbound toward Lake Michigan. This exhibition will be on view in Walker’s Point from May 4 through June 16, 2018.

In an ongoing series of walks, Meuninck-Ganger encounters overlooked aspects of the built environment and, through sketches and photographs, chronicles matter, marks, indentations, and scratches. Hand-rendered textures of the metropolitan area include stacks of lumber, skillfully arranged patterns of cream city brick, fieldstone walls, composite fiberboard lap siding, rooftops, and cedar shake. She re-imagines, cuts, rearranges, constructs, and transforms her drawings into screen printed paper maps, buildings, landscapes, and waterways – providing distinctive views of a city.

Jessica Meuninck-Ganger’s works on paper have been exhibited in museums and both experimental and commercial galleries regionally, nationally and internationally. Her printed works, hybrid print/videos, and artist’s books are included in several private and public collections, including the Weisman Museum of Art, Northwestern Mutual, the Target Corporation, and in contemporary publications, such as Andrea Ferber’s, Sustenance: Contemporary Printmaking Now, Richard Noyce’s, Printmaking Beyond the Edge, and Nathaniel Stern’s, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance. Jessica received a BS degree in Art Education from Ball State University and an MFA in Studio Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is currently the Print and Narrative Forms Area Head, Associate Professor, and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.